Cashflow Plan Free is very useful in its own right. It is also a great introduction to the entire Cashflow
Plan range. Once you have used Free, you'll be completely at home
with the other more powerful versions which cover longer time horizons,
handle more variables and contain additional facilities. Check here
for details and specs.
Fast
Facts
Name: Cashflow Plan (six versions).
Function: Microsoft Excel-based template for 12-month income,
cash flow & balance
sheet projections with roll-forward facility.
Cashflow
Plan Free is an Excel-based business cash flow planner for
short-term / high-level projections. Based on your assumptions,
Cashflow Plan generates fully-integrated projections (income statements,
cashflows, balances sheets etc.) for six months ahead using either
UK/ International or US/ Canadian accounting
conventions. It requires Excel (releases 5, 7, 8,
95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007) running on Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista).
Check the advantages
of using Cashflow Plan instead of building your own spreadsheet planner.
Cashflow Plan Free incorporates extensive formulae
and preprogrammed menus and buttons. You only need a very basic
knowledge of Excel to prepare
highly professional and presentable projections. Advanced Excel users
can utilize their expertise to enhance and expand Cashflow Plan
to meet their particular needs.
Cashflow Plan
Free is very suitable for generating short-range, high-level
financial projections for business cashflow planning for both
smaller and larger businesses. It is also an ideal introduction
to financial modeling for first-time planners and to the other more
extensive and powerful planners within the Cashflow Plan range.
Cashflow Plan Free is the most "junior" version
in the Cashflow
Plan range of six planners which offer different levels of detail
and complexity. It is identical in all key respects to
Cashflow Plan Micro (US$39) except that it generates projections
for just 6 months instead of 12 months with Micro.
The Cashflow Plan range also includes Micro, Lite, Plus,
Super and Ultra versions
which are much more powerful than Free and contain
many additional features and facilities. They cover a 12-month time
horizon and are available for immediately purchase/ use and as remotely-upgradeable
trial copies from US$39 to US$199. Further
details,
download trial copies, FAQs and purchase/
upgrade options.
Quick Guide to Cashflow Plan Versions
Problem:
More businesses fail for lack of cash than for want of profit.
Solution:
Buy Cashflow Plan now to anticipate your cash
needs.
Note: If you need projections extending beyond 12 months
for a business plan etc., you should have a look at Exl-Plan,
our range of fully-integrated financial planners which can generate
projections for months and quarters extending to three, five or seven
years. Details and trial-version downloads.
Note that Cashflow Plan Free is identical in all
key respects to Cashflow Plan Micro (US$39)
except that it generates projections for just 6 months
instead of 12 months with Micro. If you
need multi-year projections, you should look
at our Exl-Plan range here.
Cashflow
Plan Free generates fully-integrated monthly profit
and loss accounts (income statements), balance sheets and ratio analyses
for six months ahead. Its primary output includes:
Over twenty pro-forma reports containing assumptions, cashflow projections,
profit and loss accounts (income statements), balance sheets, performance
reviews and summaries for 6 months and the half year.
Numerous graphs showing key projections, ratios etc. for months for
about 50 variables.
A 10-page Textual Summary Report containing a summary of the projections
in textual form with embedded values, graphs and tables.
Once loaded, Cashflow Plan Free automatically extends Excel's
menu system (with about 130 additional options) and adds its own toolbar
and online help system.
Cashflow Plan Free contains dozens of
pre-formatted and protected worksheets incorporating thousands of formulae,
assumption values etc. Its facilities and features include the following:
Facility for rolling assumptions and projections forward one month
at a time. This enables Cashflow Plan Free to produce regularly-updated
cashflow projections with only minimal work needed to update assumptions.
Twelve-week cashflow forecasts derived from monthly cashflow projections
for the initial three months.
Quik-Plan tool to enable a user produce first-cut cashflow
projections quickly (i.e. within about 10 minutes).
Cashflow Improver incorporating dynamic projections to help identify
and enhance cash flows.
Facilities for inserting constant and varying monthly values and
for entering assumptions based on seasonal patterns etc. specified
by the user.
Selective what-if, or sensitivity analysis covering the six
months and initial twelve weeks.
Book-marking facility to allow a user mark a location within a worksheet
and to return quickly to it.
Multiple safeguards to protect formulae etc. and help prevent accidental
changes being made to worksheets.
Extensive online help and complete manual contained in a 100-page
Word document and an optional printed spiral-bound manual.
Series of Flash-based tutorials (running for 19 minutes) covering
setting up Excel, getting started, the basics and using Quik-Plan.
Comprehensive set of tailored toolbar buttons.
Error trapping to advise when any of a dozen types of data entry
or calculation errors arise.
Full access to worksheets and formulae to facilitate customization
and expansion.
Cashflow Plan Free handles a wide range
of assumption variables and financial functions. Many of these can be
expanded or altered by the user in order to embrace existing spreadsheet-based
data or to accommodate special user requirements. In addition, Cashflow
Plan Free can be set to suppress the printing of rows containing no/zero
values to enhance the conciseness and relevance of its output reports.
Quick Guide to Cashflow Plan Versions
Cashflow Plan Free is an open system
which can be expanded or customized by users. The online help and manual
describe almost twenty techniques or procedures for extending and tailoring
Cashflow Plan Free.
2.1 Sales, Cost, Inventory & Overhead Assumptions
The range of sales, cost, inventory and overhead expenses assumptions
handled by Cashflow Plan Free includes:
Monthly sales forecasts for a single sales group with five
product/market subgroups which can be defined by the user.
Facilities for specifying the cost of materials/goods in percentage
terms and for setting material inventory targets.
Direct labor head count and four other user-definable direct/variable
cost categories.
Over fifteen user-definable categories of overhead expense.
Credit terms (up to four months) can be specified for each cost/expense
variable.
The range of fixed asset, investment and financing assumptions handled
by Cashflow Plan Free covers:
Fixed assets with provision for handling depreciation (calculated
from original cost or using double declining balance) and additions/disposals.
Separate interest rates for cash balances, overdraft and long-term
debt with facilities for deferring interest payments and receipts.
Facilities for increasing and decreasing long-term debt and assigning
it between short- and long-term liabilities.
Handling of revenue grants/subsidies and non-repayable capital grants.
Share issues, dividends and corporation tax for corporations and
cash injections, drawings and income taxes for sole traders, partnerships
etc.
2.3 Credit Assumptions & Input/Output Taxes
The range of credit assumptions and input/output tax - Sales Taxes,
Value Added Tax (VAT) and Goods & Services Tax (GST) - facilities
handled by Cashflow Plan Free includes:
Provision for setting credit terms (up to 6 months ahead) for sales
and related purchases (materials or goods for resale).
Facilities for deferring cash payments relating to many categories
of monthly overheads, capital expenditure, dividends, grants etc.
Where applicable, sales/output tax rates can be set for sales.
Where taxes apply to inputs, there are facilities for defining these
taxes (VAT, GST etc.), setting different tax rates for inputs &
capital expenditure; for specifying tax payment months; and for paying
tax on an invoice or cash-received basis.
Cashflow Plan Free incorporates extensive online help covering
over 130 topics including the following:
Very Quick Start
Welcome to Cashflow Plan
Cashflow Planning
Introducing Cashflow Plan
Loading Cashflow Plan for the First Time
Getting Started with Cashflow Plan
Using Cashflow Plan
Changing Cashflow Plan
Support & Assistance
Adapting Cashflow Plan to Different Business Types
How Quik-Plan Handles Assumptions
Guidance on Entering Assumptions
Calculation Error Messages
It is also supplied with a 100-page Word-based version of
its manual and a series of Flash-based tutorials (running for 19 minutes)
covering setting up Excel, getting started, the basics and using Quik-Plan.
Because Cashflow Plan Free is extensively menu driven,
minimal Excel expertise is required to use Cashflow Plan. At the same time,
experienced spreadsheet users can use its open approach to extend and modify
worksheets within Cashflow Plan Free. Very limited Excel
expertise (e.g. creating simple formulae, inserting rows and similar) is
needed to make some of the most powerful and useful changes to Cashflow
Plan Free.
Intending users only need a (very) basic understanding of income statements,
cash flow and balance sheets in order to get to grips with Cashflow Plan Free and
from there they can easily graduate to more detailed and powerful versions
of Cashflow Plan (details).
Cashflow Plan Free is free but
contains some initial restrictions. These are completely removed once
you have registered (for free) and Cashflow Plan Free immediately
becomes fully usable and useful both as a package in its own right and
as a great introduction to the entire Cashflow Plan range. No strings
attached, no spam or spyware !!! Note that our Privacy & Security
Statement applies to all registered and unregistered users.
To download Cashflow Plan Free, go to Cashflow
Plan's download page, scroll down to Free and
select the appropriate download link. You may wish to temporarily
bookmark this page to register Cashflow Plan Free (after it has
been installed) using the form below!
Once Cashflow Plan Free has been downloaded (and unzipped,
if appropriate), run the CASH*.EXE installation file and you will be
guided through the simple installation procedures - refer to the
README.DOC file for further guidance. You will be informed in README.DOC
how to uninstall Cashflow Plan Free.
Once installed, do one of the following to run Cashflow Plan:
Select Cashflow Plan from the Start, Programs menu (W95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista).
Also, access Cashflow Plan Free's online help, accompanying
manual (MANUAL.DOC) and tutorials using this
menu. or
Load Excel and open the CASHPLAN.XLS file from within CASH*
subdirectory or folder specified during installation (this
may be located below the EXCEL subdirectory or MY DOCUMENTS
folder)
Online Tutorial
View a Tutorial
(2 minutes) on how to set up Excel (this is based
on Exl-Plan Free which shares many common
features with Cashflow Plan Free).
*
* If using Excel 2007, see the special Frequently
Asked Questions about using Cashflow Plan with
Excel 2007.
VERY IMPORTANT:
To fully load Cashflow Plan Free, you may need to change
Excel's security setting to Medium to allow
Cashflow Plan's extensive macros to run (via Tools | Macro | Security)
- click the thumbs below. For more help, refer to the Tutorial or
to Loading
and Running Problems at the Frequently
Asked Questions for Newcomers.
This guidance relates
to Excel 5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP and 2003. If using Excel
2007, see Frequently Asked Questions for Using
Excel 2007.
Load Excel, select Tools,
Macro, Security ...
... click Medium security
level and close Excel.
Reload Excel,
load Cashflow Plan and, when prompted, enable macros.
1. Cashflow Plan Free is unsupported but,
for assistance, refer to its online help; accompanying
MANUAL.DOC and README.DOC files; the Flash-based tutorials
(running for 19 minutes) covering setting up Excel,
getting started, the basics and using Quik-Plan; and
the FAQ for Users. If using Excel 2007, see FAQ
for Using Excel 2007.
2. When
using Cashflow Plan, make regular backup copies of
the file in use e.g. COPY-1.XLS, COPY-2.XLS, COPY-3.XLS and
so on.
Note: Registered copies of Cashflow Plan
Micro, Lite, Plus, Super and Ultra are fully
supported.
4. Cashflow Plan Free
- Registration Instructions (Only
relevant for earlier releases of Cashflow Plan Free)
IMPORTANT:
The current release of Cashflow Plan Free (downloadable from the Cashflow Plan download page) does NOT require
registration - so ignore these instructions.
The following instructions are for users who acquired an earlier release
of Cashflow Plan Free which requires registration. As an alternative
to registration, you can download a copy of the latest release of Cashflow
Plan Free which does not need registration from the Cashflow Plan download page. This may be faster and more convenient
for most users.
Registration of Cashflow Plan Free is simple and completely free. No
strings attached, no spam or spyware!!! Note that our Privacy & Security
Statement applies to all registered and unregistered users.
To register:
Download,
install and run Cashflow Plan Free. Then, locate the Registration
Code Number which is displayed in the form ???????-??-?? at the top
right corner of the FRONT worksheet within Cashflow Plan - click
the thumb opposite for guidance applicable to Cashflow Plan and Exl-Plan.
and
Send
an email to <cashfree@planware.org> quoting
your unique Registration
Code Number within the message's body and
await receipt of an Unlock Code. or
Use the Registration Form below.
Online Tutorial
View a Tutorial
(2 minutes) on how to set up Excel (this is based
on Exl-Plan Free which shares many common
features with Cashflow Plan Free). *
* If using Excel 2007, see the special Frequently
Asked Questions about using Cashflow Plan with Excel 2007.
Depending on your time of day, time zone and day of week, allow between
one and twelve hours to secure the unlock code by email (in plain text
with no attachments).
Note that:
If you don't hear from us within 24 hours, make contact again
but double-check your email address - wrong email addresses are
a problem! If you have recently registered, please, please don't register
a second time - it won't speed up the process. In common with most
Internet-based businesses, we operate extensive spam-filtering. If
we don't respond to your request, check your original message to ensure
that it is not "all caps", overly HTML-intensive or contains
other spam-related elements, and then resend it.
If your own email system uses aggressive anti-spam filtering,
you may never receive our email containing your unlock code. You
should temporarily add emails from "@planware.org" to your white or
friends list, or allow messages containing the phrase "Cashflow Plan
Free" to pass through your filters. Do
this
before you seek registration.
5. Cashflow Plan Free
- Registration Form (Only relevant for earlier
releases of Cashflow Plan Free)
IMPORTANT:
The current release of Cashflow Plan Free (downloadable from the Cashflow Plan download page) does NOT require
registration - so ignore these instructions.
The following Form is for users who acquired an earlier release
of Cashflow Plan Free which requires registration. As an alternative
to registration, you can download a copy of the latest release
of Cashflow Plan Free which does not need registration from the
Cashflow Plan download page. This may be faster and more convenient
for most users.
Instead of sending an email, you can use the Registration Form
below. You may wish to bookmark this page to return
to it once you have accessed Cashflow Plan Free to secure its
Registration Code Number.
Allow between one and twelve hours to secure the
Unlock Code. Please register just once!
If you wish to make a comment etc., use this Contact
Form.
Cashflow Plan Free is the least detailed and powerful
version in the Cashflow Plan range. All other versions generate comprehensive
12-month projections and incorporate many more variables and
additional tools and facilities.
The following table offers you guidance on the suitability of all versions for
different size firms. The complexity of your business, sector, detail/sophistication
required, planning objectives and your expertise should also be considered.
*Incorporates tool for consolidating projections (i.e.
cash flow and income statements plus forecast balance sheets) for subsidiary
businesses using a special Report for Consolidation. This linked to
an additional workbook (Cashflow Plan Consolidator) which facilitates
the consolidation process and includes tools for changing currencies/
denominations and eliminating inter-company transactions.
Quick Guide to Cashflow Plan Versions
The basic specifications and prices of the all versions
of Cashflow Plan are summarized below:
Note: If you need multi-year projections, have
a look at Exl-Plan,
our range of fully-integrated business finance planners
which generate projections for 3-5-7 years ahead. Details and
trial-version
downloads.
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